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In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable but it cannot advance Liberalism's social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. Specifically, it is novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov who succeed in awakening us to the cruelty of particular social practices and individual attitudes. Thus, a truly liberal culture would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. Rorty uses a wide range of references--from philosophy to social theory to literary criticism--to elucidate his beliefs. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Compilación a cargo de Richard Rorty, B. Schneewind y Quentin Skinner. Los ensayos contenidos en este volumen examinan la actual controversia sobre la relación entre la filosofía y su historia. Por una parte, los historiadores de la vida intelectual suelen acusar a los filósofos de escribir historias de la filosofía delezna bles, anacrónicas; por la otra, los filósofos suelen acusar a los historiadores intelectuales de escribir historias de la filosofía obsoletas, propias de aficionados a las antigüedades...read more

Product Description: Los tres textos de Rorty que recoge este volumen (para el que expresamente fue escrito fue escrito el último: estamos ante una primicia) constituyen no sólo un frente desconstructivo de la filosofía lingüística anglonorteamericana (Acaso la versión más y mejor propagada del "giro lingüístico" que experimenta la filosofía en este siglo), sino también la materia genética de la desconstrucción de la epistemología moderna, último intento de la filosofía sistemática, de filiación platónica-kantiana, de constituirse en Alto Tribunal de la Realidad que emite el veredicto sobre lo que es y no es un buen confort metafísico...read more

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Product Description: The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A history of American reformist activism explores the impact of of radicalism upon the fabric of American life

Product Description: This eagerly awaited book complements two highly successful previously published volumes of Richard Rorty's philosophical papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, and Essays on Heidegger and Others. In this new, provocative collection, Rorty continues to defend a pragmatist view of truth and deny that truth is a goal of inquiry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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